Q. How do you build an esql/c program on Windows without using the Microsoft Visual Studio compiler? Jonathan Leffler recently posed this challenge, and here's one possible solution using Cygwin GCC .. 1. Pre-process the .ec file using esql.exe with the -p...

Today I updated an earlier post about Visual Studio 2005 run-time DLL dependencies to discuss an additional option - embedding the manifest file in an executable. Next week this blog will be broadcasting from the IOD conference in Anaheim, where I'll be kept...

Following an earlier rant about DLL load addresses , another aspect of Windows Dynamic Load Libraries that can cause a headache is run-time DLL dependancy. If you build an ESQL/C application on Windows you can expect it to depend on the certain Informix DLLs...

Here's a 3rd revision of an ESQL/C script for Cygwin GCC on Windows. It's a bit neater with a case statement and some basic error checking thanks to some feedback from Jonathan Leffler. His feedback went much further in error checking, including calling an...